
Applause for Family Squeeze...
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"Family Squeeze reads like a novel, one of three generations laughing, growing, and conquering. With its twists and turns—even a surprise ending—Phil’s story is one most of find ourselves in as the sandwich generation copes with troubling questions while looking for examples of those who are thriving amid the challenges. This book will make you laugh, cry, and leave you bursting with hope. I highly recommend it. Lee Strobel, New York Times bestselling author of The Case For The Real Jesus |
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“Phil
Callaway is master of the funny-bone and the heart-tug.
In The Family Squeeze, he plays
both to good effect, mining wisdom and wit from some of life’s trickiest
terrain – the growing up and leaving of children, the growing old and nursing
of parents. He pretends to be just
a fellow traveler, but I’m not fooled: he knows the ground well, and I’d
follow him anywhere. |
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“Phil
Callaway’s books are not just a pleasure to savor, like eating a perfectly
ripe pear. They are full of firm insights that give grace for the daily race,
especially when the journey is hard. I loved Family Squeeze. If your life
is full of children, parents, and everything in between, you’ll love this book
too.” |
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"I
don’t know of anyone else who makes me laugh out loud, and then within
moments, finds a way to touch the deep parts of my heart. Maybe it’s
because I helped care for my parents the last ten years of their lives, or maybe
it’s just that our journeys really are much more similar than we realize. Whatever
the case, Family Squeeze was particularly timely for me. Phil has a knack
for helping us remember God’s presence in the hardest seasons
of life and he provides a generous dose of humor, lest we get lost in the
maze of self-absorption.” |
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More from readers...
Phil
has done it again: Made us laugh and cry reading just one page of this magical,
wonderful book! The best of life is always
captured by Phil Callaway’s words, and he inspires us all to live a life
worthy of passing on to our families and friends. He brings out the best in
humankind all while making us laugh out loud.
I
laughed and cried and identified wholly as I read Family Squeeze. Phil
Callaway has the gift of using gentle humor to convey powerful truth;
in this case that family is infinitely worth loving, however difficult the
moment, and that God’s grace and strength are the hope that carries us through
each day. A must-read for every parent caught in mid-life crisis
between teenage hormones and aging parents.
I commend to you the sentiments expressed in this
volume not only because we need them and because Phil wrote them, but more
importantly because he and Ramona live the grace so humorously articulated here.
I’m already planning to move in with them when I retire.
Family Squeeze was perfect for me, even though I’m only 25. I laughed so hard while reading this book, but it also makes great points. It may be funny, but there is a seriousness to the whole concept and one that will help me as a “youth” to grow into my own middle age gracefully. Amanda, apatchworkofbooks.com